Pavel Novaikin

Senior Front End Developer → Front End Team Lead

Project: "The Times" in the crypto industry

• Shipped and maintained 3 production applications serving up to 8 million users per month at peak traffic, and stood up greenfield projects end to end — tooling (ESLint, Prettier, Husky), Sentry error tracking, i18n, GTM, and Sentry/Grafana production monitoring.
• Promoted from Senior Developer to Team Lead — leading a team of 3 front end engineers: decomposing features into actionable tasks, tracking technical debt in Jira, shielding the team from unrealistic deadlines through transparent estimation, and conducting technical interviews.
• Led a full major-version upgrade of the application framework, ensuring a smooth, backward-compatible transition.
• Owned engineering standards and code quality — enforcing consistent conventions, running thorough code reviews and mentoring, designing a GitHub review workflow with LLM-assisted self-review, building automated CI quality gates, and managing dependency upgrades.
• Drove cross-functional collaboration — improving CI/CD pipelines with DevOps, aligning API contracts with backend engineers, partnering with clients and stakeholders to clarify requirements, and agreeing on roadmap and technical trade-offs with Product and the CTO.
• Delivered several key sections of the company's main website, improving structure and UX consistency, and resolved bugs across modules to improve product stability.
• Investigated and optimized the full data path — how data is created, processed, stored, and presented to users — reducing load times by 20%.
• Integrated 5 third-party APIs and 20+ partner widgets into the core platform.

Senior Full Stack Developer

Worked on several projects of different scales and directions:

• Added and refined features for a crypto payment service's core product — the user's personal dashboard, used by around 20,000 customers.
• Created and evolved a new version of that service's presentation website — a single-page app spanning 5 core pages and 12 additional pages with nested hierarchies, covering its key features and benefits.
• Built a standalone blog end to end as a separate project — setting up Strapi as a headless CMS backend and wiring it to the front end for content updates.
• Developed 2 mobile applications for Android and iOS using NativeScript with the Angular framework.
• Created the front end of a help-desk system.
• Engineered and maintained an isomorphic (SSR) web application from scratch on Nuxt.js, including its Node.js server layer.
• Implemented an end-to-end authorization mechanism based on Keycloak.

Front End Team Lead

Project: FinTech project

• Led a front end team of 6 — decomposing and supervising tasks, running daily scrums, mentoring junior developers, and interviewing candidates.
• Owned the tech stack and engineering quality — selecting technologies, introducing code review, and managing incidents and overall application health.
• Designed and organized a middleware API between the client and the core backend, and automated the deployment process (Bamboo).
• Migrated the project from JavaScript to TypeScript, eliminating a large class of weak-typing errors.
• Refactored the codebase toward SOLID principles — splitting oversized super-classes into small, focused ones and extracting reusable components and modules.
• Optimized the application, significantly reducing CPU load on the client side.

Front End Developer

Project: An ambitious service which is able to choose a tourist program in several countries fit for your budget.

• Crafted the front end of the service from pixel-perfect designs.
• Authored many custom Angular components.
• Tested every new feature at the end of each sprint.